No.2: On doing 'Business' Online (continued) !

VIEWS @ 21

The online world is as cosmopolitan as it will ever be. Globalization has pretty well peaked. To save money and stay within budgetary restraints many of us little pisher folk, including the large companies, continue to seek more affordable off-shore talent to aid us in bringing our projects to fruition. 

This ought to be a well-functioning marriage, but often, including in my case, it turns in to a societal dichotomy of purposes!

I share with you my North-American Western experience with a purportedly awesome East Indian web-development Company.  
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Hello Chennai, India: 

I have come to realize that since we are all different, motivated by our own circumstances and hardships, we tenaciously hold on to whatever is important to us as individuals. 

As an elder's last stand to make a difference to my society, for many years now I searched for a project whose TIMING was right!  Although I feel I found that with the gocascadia.com website, ! have additionally experienced that life on the purported ONLINE FAST LANE is actually strife with its own - at times nefarious - needs to slow the process DOWN ! 

If professional Marketing would indeed function as self-promoted perfect, based on its promises, all should be completed efficiently and early, with results $$$$ potential intake garnered are ultimately held at a minimum! 

This is in reality contradictory to, and by FACT, defeating the purpose of life! 

I have eluded many a time now to the potentials of down-the-road work for (Name Withheld), when - after having been presented with a professionally acceptable site - my Marketing strategy should bring many Communities on board, with in turn their various needs for, and, hence, your participation therein with additional website creation.

Since it has taken us some 14 months to get to this stage, with my paying you some $4,500 CAD, I can only surmise you are milking me best you are able! Or is it instead your combined talent being incapable of rendering me what is ultimately professionally acceptable? 

Ready to quit, I have been up and down with you numerous times now. Had I more financial capacity, I would clearly have moved on! I am not speaking of acceptable ins and outs of trying various items that over time require adjustment. These are all acceptable with a larger project such as ours. 

My fears are now based on the actual solid efforts of your in-house talents! 

Items that worked fine before are presently breaking down!  

I repeat what I have learned to trust:
"Coding either works 100% perfectly, or it doesn't! 

There is NO ROOM FOR ERROR!"

Our demise is definitely imminent, but, to show good faith, please bill me for another 10 hours.

 Sincerely,

Jan Steen   

NO.1 On Doing 'BUSINESS' ON-line!

From VIEWS @ 23694 on legal matters,  to a new CHAPTER! 

The full realization of Canadian Marshall McLuhan's 1960's prediction of the Global Village is presently hot and heavy in is aftermath. Having gone full rounds with multiple Eastern Countries, importing their once upon-a-TIME cheaply laboured goods, the West is slowly coming to its senses.

Although disgraceful sweat-shops continue to exist, much of life in the East is in far better shape now. With the introduction of the Internet, and most all the world having access to online service, much of Industry and work-space is intelligently shifting from saturated down-town city-clog, to more home-based industries. I am on to it, working anxiously to being a part of it.

Go Cascadia here we come.... ??!!

Like British resident and global observer George Monbiot suggesting we start 'Suing for Survival',  with some status quo judges promising responses to annihilate some gargantuan projects, these, as I interpret and agree are potentially positive changes!
We must begin looking inwards again! And though we are all guilty of a certain amount of hypocrisy  (me on this machine; me driving a Smart Car; me...ETC.)

We must STOP looking to others for easy survival: we must STOP the insane distant tanker and freighter traffic! And look to re-discover our insides, and relearn to make existence function from within our immediate community. ....

Yeah, all well and good you'll say, but were will I buy my figs and Bananas? Well, Okay! A couple of banana freighters allowed.  There are ground-swells afoot of individuals expressing themselves by becoming home-grown entrepreneurs. All this is aiding the move towards greater self-sufficiency and less reliance on long distant distribution.

GoCascadia.com here we come!

However, that said, there's other distant niches been created, that are now questionably in-our-face.
Doing 'BUSINESS' on line runs strife with 'WHO ARE YOU ACTUALLY DEALING WITH?'
Representatives of the resources required to integrate into your online completion may be folk hired from far a field - many do not have English as their mother tongue. Individuals who mean well, but live a day ahead of you, and often in dire straights. So while working on re-interpreting the tactile world, the intangible wanne-rear-its-online cobra-head is nibbling at us!

The Internet phenomena, while serving you at nano-second speed, when touching base to do business with those who 'SERVE' and accommodate the nets allowances, can be painstakingly SLOOOOOW!

Succinct and clear communication runs secondary to keeping you on their payroll!
Wherever she/he is located, LORD knows, paying the rent, means tenaciously holding on to a client, with all the prescribed rhetoric at their disposal. "We are so sorry! We will fix this. Check it now! You like? Is better now, OK?"

There's the rub - a dichotomy between a speedy, yet often hugely in-efficient world. Is it a mere FLASH in the pants .... this quasi affordable, distant and foreign intangible High-Tech battle between man's Innovation and practically doable sensibilities?
 
Growing up in the back-to-the-land world of the sixties and seventies, I have come to experience that unless you have plenty of bucks to hire your locals at their voluptuous rates, plus have the additional luxury of sitting it out with them face-to-face, you are a mere pawn in their proverbial chess match!

Though multiple up-front online promos tout "We are the VERY BEST at what we do!" and try suck you in with clarion efficiency, once on board, most probably the honeymoon proves to be short-lived indeed! The online ethic is to haul you in, withdraw your money, and keep at it.

Trust and Honesty, whatever little we had of it, have flown the coop!They CAN NOT be afforded.

It brings me all back to my line:

"At the foundation of a society runs its legal system. When it is corrupt, so will be all its other departments!"

BOOHOO!